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Word: odorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edna is very unhappy. She thought she loved Jimmy, but last night she went to the theatre and fell in love with an actor. Of course the only thing left for her to do is to take the veil. Then she realizes as she pictures a death in the odor of sanctity that she really does love Jimmy after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doves' Nest-- Katherine Mansfield Explains Us to Ourselves | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...night Mr. Walter Hampden revived Massinger's "A New Way to Pay Old Debts". The audience felt a trifle conspicuous in the vast emptiness of the Opera House, but the comedy soon put them at ease. It is a pity that revivals must always be veiled in the odor of sanctity, to be approached only with the deference due to age. Philip Massinger did not write for antiquarians and students of literature. He wrote for the gallants and ladies of Elizabeth, for their drapers and tapsters, their coachmen and chambermaids--and he won them all. He was the Winchell Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/6/1923 | See Source »

...bunk shows practically 100 percent efficiency in complying with the advertising laws, but I believe that the continued sale of these products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological results. The common yeast vitamine tablets and similar patent medicines must of necessity fail in these attributes, unless drugs are added, because they are tasteless and because we all have an abundance of vitamines in our daily diets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYSTERY MAKES SALE OF VITAMINES POSSIBLE CHARGES FOOD DIRECTOR | 5/22/1922 | See Source »

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